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Bisk, Lady
- Elizabeth Dallison states Lady Bisk is the aunt of Judge Goddard[1]
- Guybbon Goddard (b. ?ca. 1597, or ?1613, d. ca. 1671), lawyer and MP
- A PRC post-mortem inventory is available for Guybon Goddard, but no will has been identified[2]
- Now identified as Guybon Goddard Esquire, of Lincoln's Inn; Recorder of Lyme Regis, Norfolk, and Judge of the Sheriff's Court, London, 1659; appointed serjeant-at-law, 1669[3]
- MP for Kings Lynn and Castle Rising, Norfolk in 1654-1659 period, manuscript private parliamentary diary of Guybon Goddard survives for this period[4]
- Sir William Dugdale was brother-in-law to Guybon Goddard[5]
- Short profile of Judge Goddard in Henry J. Hillem, History of the borough of King's Lynn (vol. 2 (Norwich, 1907), p. 505. States resident in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, since 1651, having purchased manor of Flitcham and sold residence at Brampton; states Sir William Dugdale, brother-in-law of Goddard, wrote to a "Mr. Bishe", 17th November 1658. Is the "Lady Bisk" of Elizabeth Dallison's letter a mistranscription by me or by Oxenden's copyist for Bishe?)[6]
- Grandfather of Guybon Goddard was Thomas Goddard gent., lord of manor of Castleacre Priory, and two messuages of land in east and west Rudham, in manor of East Rudham, as per an inquisition at King's Lynn, IV Charles I; Father was Thomas Goddard (d. 1613), and mother was Mary Guibon , daughter of William Guibon.[7] According to Blomefield, Guybon Goddard was sixteen at the death of his father in 1613, giving a birthdate of ca. 1597, not 1613 as given by Hillem, 1907: 505[8]
- Few Norfolk Goddards in C17th have PRC wills[9]
- "Council held on November 26th, 1661. Nine Benchers present....At this counsell, Mr Goddard, one of the Masters of the Bench, and Administrator with the will annexed of John Greene, Esq., late Recorder of the Citty of London, deceased, presented one peece of plate, being a Colledge Pott of silver of about tenne pounds value, which was bequeathed as a legacy to this Society by the said John Greene"[10]
- "Accounts of George Day, Guibon Goddard and Thomas Manby, Esquires, the Treasurers, from Nov. 28th, 1661, to Nov. 28th, 1662."[11]
- "Council held on February 11th, 16 Charles II, 1664. Nine Benchers present.... At this Council the Commissioners of the Treasury, M:r Day, Goddard and M:r Manby, are discharged from their office, and Sir Robert Atkins is chosen Treasurer for the year ensuing."[12]
- "Council held on November 22nd, 1666.
Ten Benchers present.
Officers for 1667. 1667.
Lent Reader : No Reading.
Autumn Reader: M r Thomas Powis.
Treasurer: M r Edward Rich.
Keeper of the Black Book: M r Guibon Goddard."[13]
- "Council held on November 26th, 1667. Eight Benchers present.
1668. Officers for 1668.
Lent Reader : No Reading.
Autumn Reader : M r Gibbon Goddard.
Treasurer : M r Edward Rich.
Keeper of the Black Book : M r Richard Graves."[14]
- Try search "Bisk" or "Bishe" + "Goddard"
- Try search in Norfolk e-archives & county histories
Gary, Henry
- Henry Gary's origins are unclear
- No discernible PRC will; Gary is exceptionally unusual English name in C17th
- Do a secondary literature search
